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Dr Andrew Davies, Director of Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion and Professor of Biblical Interpretation, is to deliver a lecture on 'The Public Understanding of Religion: Social and Public Policy' at this week's Social Justice Institute event at Boston University.

Dr Louise Hardwick has just had an article published by The Guardian Higher Education Network on her AHRC Joseph Zobel research project. The article describes Louise's "Indiana Jones moment" when she realised that a watercolour in the British Library was mislabelled, and held a secret connection to Joseph Zobel.

Last week, the University of Birmingham announced that within its collections it holds one of the earliest Qur'anic manuscripts in existence. Radiocarbon analysis revealed that the document dates from within a few decades of the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad.

Last week, the University of Birmingham announced that within its collections it holds one of the earliest Qur'anic manuscripts in existence. Radiocarbon analysis revealed that the document dates from within a few decades of the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad.